It’s funny how spending ten minutes circling a bunch of grey lumps and tagging them as “WFT?” (What Fermi That?) can do wonders for your grey matter.

Internet issues? Pah.

Someone called someone a stinky skepti-poo? Whatevs.

Where the hell did my class list go did that lecturer take it with him when he scooped up all the paperwork on the desk I was using oh my god half the class are former high school students of mine and one of them just asked me if I still have that Matrix-style black jacket from 2006 that they remember so fondly… sod, I need another planet to focus on for a while.

Boop boop boop with the little green circles and hit the button for the next photograph. Oh look, apparently I’m nearly as good as the people who do this with a proper science degree attached to them. Craters for the win!

I won stuff, and I was rather astonished about it – my NASA sticker is proudly displayed on my laptop cover and if CosmoQuest are willing to send stuff to a town nearly as far away from them as the moon (maybe it just feels like that some days), then they must be good sorts.

Kylie Sturgess is a Philosophy teacher, media and psychology student, blogger at Patheos and podcaster at Token Skeptic. She has conducted over a hundred interviews including artists, scientists, politicians and activists, worldwide. She’s the author of the ‘Curiouser and Curiouser‘ column at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry website and travels internationally lecturing on feminism, skepticism, and science.

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Kylie Sturgess is a Philosophy teacher, media and psychology student, blogger at Patheos and podcaster at Token Skeptic. She has conducted over a hundred interviews including artists, scientists, politicians and activists, worldwide.